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Operators in ansible

There are four types of operators in ansible

Comparison operator (<, >, <=, >=, ==, !=)

Membership operator ( in , not in)

test operator ( is defined, is upper, is lower, is file, is directory)

logical operators ( and, or)

- name: This will show the Use of Comparision Operators

hosts: localhost

gather_facts: false

vars:

a : "HELLO"

d : "hello"

b : 10

c : 20

e : [1,5,9,10,15,109]

x: "/root/ansible/operators_statement"

y: "/root/ansible/operators_statement/comparision_operator.yml"

tasks:

- name: Operations on variables

debug:

msg:

- "The List is - {{ e }}, Value of c is - {{ c }} and Value of b is - {{ b }}"

- "Is b memeber of e : {{ b in e }}"

- "Is c memeber of e : {{ c in e }}"

- "Is 25 memeber of e : {{ 25 in e }}"

- "Is c not a memeber of e : {{ c not in e }}"

- name: Tests Operators

debug:

msg:

- "a is defined? {{ a is defined }}"

- "c is defined? {{ c is defined }}"

- "a is Upper? {{ a is upper }}"

- "b is Lower? {{ b is lower }}"

- "e is String? {{ e is string }}"

- "a is devisble by 7? {{ a is divisibleby 7 }}"

- "y is file: {{ y is file }}"

- "x is directory: {{ x is directory }}"

- "y is directory: {{ y is directory }}"

Conditional statements in ansible (when)

- name: This is for Conditional Statement

hosts: localhost

gather_facts: false

vars:

x : 20

y : 10

tasks:

- name: Operation for Conditional Statement

debug:

msg:

- "Value of x : {{ x }}, Value of y: {{ y }}"

- name: Operation for Conditional Statement I

debug:

msg:

- "x is Small of y"

when: x < y

- name: Operation for Conditional Statement II

debug:

msg:

- "x is not Small then y"

when: x > y

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